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VMware Fusion is $50. I've used VMware Workstation (on Windows) for years. Have considered going to VirtualBox (open-source, free) but haven't gotten around to it. Couldn't convert existing VMs from VMware to VirtualBox.

My earlier question about perhaps getting a transcript of the script Eric was using?? He touched on some valuable stuff I didn't manage to catch.

I'm going to cause some excitement when I spread the word about the pre-loaded ubuntu vmware package -- I've got a crowd of people already starting to pull their hair out trying to get a common development environment defined so they can share the development sequence (i.e. bootstrap each other past "what was THAT??" and "did your system fail when you did ...this...??, etc

Mind-reading again, with the itseez.com reference. Thanks! (BTW, hope that cough gets better soon, or people will be wearing hospital masks to your presentation next week...)

Eric's class on Tuesday will not be recorded. The full suite of presentations Wednesday WILL be recorded, for publication within a few weeks after the event, after they're edited. For more on the Embedded Vision Summit agenda, see here:

So do I correctly understand that BDTi is in a position to maintain a top-down view of all these different development efforts, so that it IS possible to do a reasonably complete survey of design choices without having to search the entire internet?

BDTI evaluates a variety of processors, tools and algorithms on an ongoing basis. Through free resources (like this class series) and consulting services, we help engineers and companies make good choices in selecting processors, tools, and algorithms for use in their products.

So do I correctly understand that BDTi is in a position to maintain a top-down view of all these different development efforts, so that it IS possible to do a reasonably complete survey of design choices without having to search the entire internet?

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